Vanja Radovanović (35) has won Montenegro's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, 'Montevizija 2018' with the song 'Inje' and will represent the country in Lisbon!

Slavko Kalezić was chosen to represent Montenegro at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Space but for 2018 Montenegrin broadcaster RTCG opted for a national final. The show was held at the Hilton hotel in Podgorica.

Inje (Mist), a traditional Balkan ballad, comes off as somewhat interchangeable with so many other ballads we’ve heard from the region in recent years. The melody, while beautiful, grows rather tiresome rather quickly. The instrumentation is enchanting — cello, violin and piano. But at times they are so sparse and soft the song feels empty.

The selection of a Balkan ballad fits with Montenegro’s most successful trips to Eurovision. Montenegro has qualified for the Eurovision grand final twice, both times with Balkan ballads. In 2014, Sergej Cetkovic placed 19th with “Moj svijet”, while the following year Knez placed 13th with “Adio”.

Alekseev has won the Belarusian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest and will represent the country with the song 'Forever'. The winner was decided by a combination of public and jury votes.

Alekseev recieved the most points from both the professional jury and public televote and will follow in the footsteps of Naviband who represented Belarus at Eurovision in 2017.

Nikita Vladimirovich Alekseev (24), known professionally as simply Alekseev, was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and first rose to prominence in 2014, after placing as a semifinalist on season four of The Voice of Ukraine. He has previously collaborated with Ani Lorak, who finished second in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008.

What a rollercoaster! After initially calling for songs with a ‘Greek sound’, and selecting five artists to take part in a national final, Greece proceeded to disqualify two of the five acts for not meeting that criteria.

On Thursday, it was reported that the record labels for the two other competing artists refused to pay a € 20,000 fee to the Greek broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) and were disqualified from the competition. This leaves Yianna Terzi as the last woman standing, and she has now been internally picked to represent Greece at Eurovision 2018 with her song “Óneiró mou” (My Dream).

Gianna Terzi (37) was born in Thessaloniki and began performing professionally in 2005. After releasing several successful albums she relocated to the United States and worked as a talent scout for Interscope Records.

Sanja Ilić & Balkanika have won the Serbian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, 'Beovizija 2018' and will represent the country in Lisbon in May with the song 'Nova deca'. The winner was decided by a combination of jury and public votes.

Aleksandar ''Sanja'' Ilić (55), a Serbian composer, keyboardist and architect, founded the group Balkanika in 1998. He ensures that the group assembles musicians who play old instruments from the Balkans, trying to blend them into a modern pop-rock sound.

Serbia first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. The country won with its debut entry, Marija Šerifović, and her song Molitva in 2007 and hosted the competition in the capital Belgrade the following year.

* Portugal had to go through 49 contests to achieve their first victory in 2017, when Salvador Sobral won with record breaking 758 points with the song "Amar Pelos Dois"

* United Kingdom gave zero points to ABBA in 1974

* Israel is the only winning country that didn't participate the following year. They won in 1979 but didn't participate in 1980 due to Israeli Memorial Day

* Australia has broadcast ESC every year since 1983. The percentage of viewers for ESC has been higher in Australia than in some of the competing nations

* The most covered Eurovision Song Contest song is Domenico Mudugno's "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" from 1958, also known as Volare. The song has been covered by famous stars such as Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, David Bowie and many more

* Portugal had to go through 49 contests to achieve their first victory in 2017, when Salvador Sobral won with record breaking 758 points with the song "Amar Pelos Dois"

* United Kingdom gave zero points to ABBA in 1974

* Israel is the only winning country that didn't participate the following year. They won in 1979 but didn't participate in 1980 due to Israeli Memorial Day

* Australia has broadcast ESC every year since 1983. The percentage of viewers for ESC has been higher in Australia than in some of the competing nations

* The most covered Eurovision Song Contest song is Domenico Mudugno's "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" from 1958, also known as Volare. The song has been covered by famous stars such as Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, David Bowie and many more